The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

The intervention has an execution period of 14 months ... The highlights include the Taskin harpsichord, built in 1782 at the request of King Louis XVI of France, the Stradivarius cello, which ...

The execution last week of Jessie Hoffman Jr. marked the end of a 15-year-long stretch in which the death penalty was on the books in Louisiana but not carried out. It also marked the beginning ...

While out on a carriage ride through Paris, she spots two snow effigies of herself and her husband, Louis XVI. They are presumably in gratitude ... Among those is the Marquis de Lafayette, back from ...

He played charades. And though Hoffman declined to make a public, final statement when he was strapped to the execution table at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, his wife said that he ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials ...